hollis (they/them) currently studying classics and archaeology.
The Catholic Church sucks as an organization but you gotta admit they fucking went off with the aesthetic. We got inverted crosses, stained class windows, half naked dying people, Jesus is absolutely shredded and nearly naked on every crucifix, shit is named stuff like “Our Lady of the Bloody Cross” and a flaming heart is a symbol of Mary. It’s dramatic, it’s dark, it’s ridiculously homoerotic. There are several famous pieces of art in churches of St Theresa mid orgasm. The Vatican was like “Satan is the most evil thing ever and also these poems of him as a rebellious sexy fallen angel fuck SO HARD we’re gonna make them canon.” It’s impossible to be raised in a devoutly Catholic family and not end up queer, atheist, and with some weird kink.